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+<?php  if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
+/**
+ * Code Igniter
+ *
+ * An open source application development framework for PHP 4.3.2 or newer
+ *
+ * @package		CodeIgniter
+ * @author		Rick Ellis
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2006, pMachine, Inc.
+ * @license		http://www.codeignitor.com/user_guide/license.html 
+ * @link		http://www.codeigniter.com
+ * @since		Version 1.0
+ * @filesource
+ */
+ 
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Code Igniter Security Helpers
+ *
+ * @package		CodeIgniter
+ * @subpackage	Helpers
+ * @category	Helpers
+ * @author		Rick Ellis
+ * @link		http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/security_helper.html
+ */
+
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * XSS Filtering
+ *
+ * @access	public
+ * @parm	string
+ * @parm	string	the character set of your data
+ * @return	string
+ */	
+function xss_clean($str, $charset = 'ISO-8859-1')
+{
+	$obj =& get_instance();
+	return $obj->input->xss_clean($str, $charset);
+}
+
+// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Hash encode a string
+ *
+ * @access	public
+ * @param	string
+ * @return	string
+ */		
+function hash($str, $type = 'sha1')
+{
+	if ($type == 'sha1')
+	{
+		if ( ! function_exists('sha1'))
+		{
+			if ( ! function_exists('mhash'))
+			{	
+				require_once(BASEPATH.'libraries/Sha1'.EXT);
+				$SH = new CI_SHA;
+				return $SH->generate($str);            
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				return bin2hex(mhash(MHASH_SHA1, $str));
+			}
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			return sha1($str);
+		}	
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		return md5($str);
+	}
+}
+	
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Strip Image Tags
+ *
+ * @access	public
+ * @parm	string
+ * @return	string
+ */	
+function strip_image_tags($str)
+{    
+	$str = preg_replace("#<img\s+.*?src\s*=\s*[\"'](.+?)[\"'].*?\>#", "\\1", $str);
+	$str = preg_replace("#<img\s+.*?src\s*=\s*(.+?).*?\>#", "\\1", $str);
+			
+	return $str;
+}
+	
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Convert PHP tags to entities
+ *
+ * @access	public
+ * @parm	string
+ * @return	string
+ */	
+function encode_php_tags($str)
+{
+	return str_replace(array('<?php', '<?PHP', '<?', '?>'),  array('&lt;?php', '&lt;?PHP', '&lt;?', '?&gt;'), $str);
+}
+
+?>
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